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There are things that we cannot imagine because they are impossible (like a solution to Russell's set theory, since it is impossible to reach that solution because it is illogical.)
Some months ago, ...

I remember[ed] reading a story on a brain-inspired integrated mechanism for energy-delivery and cooling in (experimental) new computer chips:
The human brain packs phenomenal computing power into a ...

The left and right hemispheres of the brain are connected by a bundle of fibers called the corpus collosum. Ambidextrous, left handers and cross-dominant people have symmetrical brains as opposed to ...

The orientation association area gives us a sense of our body in time and space.
What would it be like without this part of the brain assuming everything else works normally?
Can the brain separate ...

So we know that repeated withdrawal from GABAeric substances like alcohol and benzodiazepines will cause kindling and worsen future withdrawal symptoms. Also, it appears that withdrawal from alcohol ...

According to this answer humans have enough memory to store 300 years of TV shows. However, of course, it is disputable, as storage system would be completely different from storing TV shows (videos) ...

I have read from several sources that in the leaky integrate-and-fire model of a single neuron resistor (leakage) and capacitor (membrane potential) are arranged in parallel. Look at the following RC ...

Recently I've started reading dynamical systems in neuroscience by izhikevich and was fascinated by the subject. I would like to pursue PhD in computational neuroscience after my masters. Is it worth ...

I am trying to recover P300 information from raw EEG data. I have information from 23 electrodes in my EEG cap and have several files form which I will need to recover this information. However, I am ...

I've repeatedly come across the claim that brain dynamics operate near the edge of chaos, but usually they do not give any useful sources on how we actually know this.
I'm also aware that there are ...

The last several years in my country there has been a string of fraud that involves people, claiming to be police, asking citizens to contribute large sums of money to aid "police investigation".
The ...

1) Is there any set of rules that human beings or, more generally, other sentient living beings know a priori before any learning process?
In other words, do sentient living beings always were born ...

So I have been experimenting a bit with pshycadelics nothing too much , I did lsd twice in a period of 3 months , inbetween i have done mdma once.
Two weeks after my last use of lsd I started noticing ...

I just ran out of a large shipment of NEO-FFI booklets, so I went to order more from PARinc. This shipment has lasted since 2014.
It seems that the original version of the NEO-FFI that I was using (...

From wikipedia article sexual motivation and hormones, it is said that testosterone/estrogen, oxytocin and vasopressin are stimulating sexual behaviour. But I'm wondering if any of these hormones are ...

Which tasks induce the strongest error-related negativity? I'm trying to build a classifier that measures EEG signals to detect when a subject observes an error being committed by another subject. It ...

I would like to know what the branches of neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, and psychiatry related to what happens when the tongue touches and other possible related mouth sensors, touch, ...

Can someone please tell me how negative rewards or punishments are processed in the human brain? Do we have a separate segment to process positive and negative reward and are the positive and negative ...

For example, a lot of antipsychotics are chemically similar to serotonin, and at least partially trigger certain types of serotonin receptors. Is there any evidence to suggest that, because of their ...

I was involved in a discussion where somebody had asked if others had thoughts of doing risky things during their manic episodes. Two people commented, including myself. I worried that only relying on ...

Firstly, I would say that this question is probably beyond current knowledge.
But I would like to hear the latest theories.
Given an input "Can you name as many animals as you can until I say 'stop'?...

Every once in a while I decide to play Phase Shift (very similar to Guitar Hero). I might go weeks or months between plays, but when I return, I often break a high score within the first few songs I ...

Excessive sugar, like Pepsi, is considered harmful. However, I am wondering if it could be helpful if taken by a victim of stroke during or immediately after a stroke, or somewhat after a stroke? My ...